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Introduction

Ion is a tiling window manager with tabbed frames. It uses Lua as an embedded interpreter which handles all of the configuration. It mainly uses the keyboard to access the functions but also supports the mouse for some things.

Installation

Ion3 is still in development and hasn't been released yet but packages for the development snapshots can be found in the community repository.
Refresh Pacman and run the following command:

pacman -S ion3-devel

If you want a bunch of extra scripts you can run the following command(optional):

pacman -S ion3-devel-scripts

Copy the configurationfiles to your home directory:

cp /etc/ion3/* ~/.ion3

To start Ion3 just append the following line in ~/.xinitrc :

exec ion3

Now you're ready to begin to configure Ion as described below.

Configuration

Note: The files below have been heavily modified from the defaults to better suit my needs. /xerxes2